:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jan 23 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 23 Issued at 0030Z on 23 Jan 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 22 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 22/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1658 S12W60 096 0060 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1660 N14W28 064 0190 Dac 09 21 Beta-Gamma 1661 N13 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (22 January 2013) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * How Widespread was the Australian Heatwave? http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80232&src=eoa-iotd * Marine Layer Clouds off the California Coast http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=79758&src=eoa-iotd * Polar Mesospheric Clouds, South Pacific Ocean http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id ...Continue Reading

Jan. 22, 2013 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 rachel.hoover@nasa.gov Leslie Williams Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif. 661-276-3893 leslie.a.williams@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-027 NASA SELECTS EXPERIMENTAL COMMERCIAL SUBORBITAL FLIGHT PAYLOADS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Flight Opportunities Program has selected 13 cutting-edge space technology payloads for flights on commercial reusabl ...Continue Reading

Jan. 22, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-018 NASA HOSTS JAN. 23 MEDIA TELECONFERENCE ON SUN OBSERVATIONS WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 23, to discuss new observations of a large active region in the sun's 1- million-degree atmosphere called the corona. Researchers have been studying detailed images from the High Resolution Coronal (Hi-C) Imager telescope with its 9.5-inch diameter mi ...Continue Reading

Jan. 22, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-025 NASA, AHOORA FOUNDATION UNITE TO IGNITE STUDENTS' PASSION FOR SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON -- Candy, soda and other everyday items will be the tools of the trade for teenage rocket makers competing in the What If? Live Student Design Challenge, which was kicked off Tuesday by NASA and the Ahoora Foundation of Plano, Texas. Registration is open through Feb. 28 for the worldwide contest, in which 14- to ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jan 22 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 22 Issued at 0030Z on 22 Jan 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 21 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 21/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1654 N09W88 144 0010 Bxo 03 04 Beta 1658 S12W46 096 0070 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1660 N12W15 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- THE SUMMER OF 2012-13 BRINGS FIRES TO AUSTRALIA Wildfires burned in Australia during 2012 and 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80187&src=nha *** ALI(EO-1) image from Jan 15, 2013 (Posted on Jan 16, 2013 3:35 PM) -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (4 updated events, 6 new images) -- DUST PLUMES OFF LIBYA Dust plume ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ACTIVITY AT TOLBACHIK VOLCANO Tolbachik Volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula continued to erupt in January of 2013, along with several other nearby volcanoes. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80226&src=nha *** ASTER(Terra) image from Jan 11, 2013 (Posted on Jan 18, 2013 4:18 PM) -- CROPS ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #13-3 2013 January 20 at 9:23 p.m. MST (2013 January 21 0423 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For January 14-20 No space weather storms were observed. Outlook For January 21-27 No space weather storms are expected. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services an ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jan 21 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 21 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Jan 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1654 N08W84 147 0280 Fko 18 09 Beta-Gamma 1658 S12W32 095 0060 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1660 N13 ...Continue Reading